Updated 19/06/25
Welcome to our most basic of websites!
We hope it provides you with most of the information you want and all of the information you need.
Almost all of our gigs take place at:
Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott,
Nr. HINDHEAD, Surrey GU26 6TZ
For further information about our events or for ticket enquiries, either call:
Des O'Byrne on
Home: 01428 607096
Mobile: 07800 951 507
or e-mail:
grayshottfolkclub@btinternet.com
We also sell tickets online, through Ents 24.
Go to: www.ents24.com and search for "Grayshott Folk Club"
and you will find a ticketing link to all of the gigs we are currently selling tickets for.
Established in January 2011, Grayshott Folk Club brings you the finest in Folk, Roots and Acoustic live music events.
We generally host one or two events most months and have a well-appointed and comfortable venue, which has wonderful facilities for both performers and audience alike, as well as having superb acoustics.
We run a fully-licensed Bar, which stocks a range of quality bottled Bitters such as: Hook Norton "Hooky", Old Speckled Hen and Long Man Best Bitter.
We also stock Red and White Wine, Cider, Lager and a variety of soft drinks.
Perhaps you might prefer Tea or Coffee?
We sell all of these at reasonable prices but remember, we are a CASH ONLY organisation.
We do not have card facilities at our venue.
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NEXT UP AT GRAYSHOTT FOLK CLUB:
Grayshott Folk Club's "Mini-Festival"
(as mentioned on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show on
4th June 2025)
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Friday 1st August 2025 @ 7.30pm
MERRY HELL
First up at our "Mini-Festival" are Wigan's favourite sons (and daughter), the inimitable Folk/Rock ensemble that are Merry Hell.
These Multi-award wining Folk/Rockers offer joyful, uplifting music with a message for troubled times and we know you will be royally entertained and leave the Hall with a skip in your step and a song going round and round in your head.
This could be either their fourth or fifth visit to Grayshott but who's counting? Each time they play at Wickham Festival, they drop by at Grayshott Village Hall and fill the place with enthusiastic, carefree and willing audiences who are instantly charmed by the music and anthemic songs that Merry Hell are famous for.
Within two or three songs, everyone in the audience will be swaying, holding their hands in the air and joining in the chorus of earworms such as "Bury Me Naked":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8XSJjpYdA4
Resistance is futile as they follow one anthemic song with another like "Lean On Me, Love":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjm17RcO7g
Through 6 well-received albums and hundreds of gigs, they've offered voices of hope and beacons of light to anyone valuing both melody and positive humanity. Their live performances have won many admirers and they are an in-demand festival band whose army of followers is growing by the day.
On May 9th this year, Merry Hell released a brand new album called "Rising Of The Bold". It has already garnered heaps of praise from critics and the listening public alike.
The lead single from the album is a song called "Peace Can Be Louder Than War" which they played live on their nationwide tour in May 2024. They recorded each gig audience singing the chorus along with the band and added them to their "1000+ strong choir".
On Friday 31st May 2024, they added the voices of Grayshott Folk Club's audience to that choir and they are on the recording. It was played on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show on Wednesday 4th June 2025 and you can listen to it here, about 18 minutes in to the programme:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002cmjp
Come and join Merry Hell for what promises to be a memorable night.
Tickets £20
Available on 01428 607096 or 07800 951 507
or online through Ents24 at:
https://www.ents24.com/hindhead-events/grayshott-village-hall/merry-hell/7292365
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Saturday 2nd August 2025 @ 7.30pm
STEVE WICKHAM (ex-The Waterboys) + RAY COEN
We welcome Steve and Ray back for their third visit to Grayshott Folk Club. They will be travelling over from the West of Ireland to play for us, before moving on to play at Wickham Festival the day after their Grayshott gig.
Listen to The Waterboys' "Fisherman's Blues" here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4UQJwd3awQ
Steve co-wrote this song with Mike Scott of The Waterboys and plays the Fiddle on it. Mike described Steve as:
"the World's greatest rock fiddle player" and Steve has played with many of the best that popular music has to offer:
Bob Dylan, U2, Sinead O'Connor.....the list goes on.
In addition to playing with a range of other musicians, Steve has found time to write, record and release two brilliant Solo albums. "Geronimo" (2004) was his first solo album and the title is the same name Steve gave to his favourite Fiddle.
"Beekeeper" (2017) was Steve's second solo album and it is never off my turntable at home. It contains a whole variety of music that embraces a diverse range of musical styles.
More recently, Steve has been working on his third album and on his last visit in May 2024, shared with us one of the songs he wrote during lockdown.
It is a beautiful and optimistic song of hope called
"All Will Be Well":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvKyxcMNn-k
Ray Coen is a singer/songwriter and guitarist from Sligo, in the West of Ireland. He has been a co-member of an International band called No Crows with Steve for many years.
Steve and Ray know each other really well and complement each other musically, on stage. Together, they make beautiful sounds.......don't miss them.
Tickets £20
Reservations on 01428 607096 or 07800 951 507
Also available to purchase online through Ents24 at:
https://www.ents24.com/hindhead-events/grayshott-village-hall/steve-wickham-the-waterboys/7292954
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Saturday 20th September 2025 @ 7.30pm
BOB FOX
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Saturday 4th October 2025 @ 7.30pm
JACOB & CLEVERLEY
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Saturday 18th October 2025 @ 7.30pm
HEIDI TALBOT
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Thursday 13th November 2025 @ 7.30pm
GATEHOUSE
(on tour from Ireland)
Listen to "The Gypsies" here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw_XGvrQqIc&t=1s
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Saturday 29th November @ 7.30pm
JANICE BURNS & JON DORAN
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Saturday 13th December 2025 @ 7.30pm
Grayshott Folk Club's "Christmas Special"
with: THE FURROW COLLECTIVE
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PAST GIGS AT GRAYSHOTT FOLK CLUB
August 2021-May 2025
Friday 6th August 2021
MERRY HELL
Sunday 5th September 2021
SERIOUS CHILD WITH ANDY RUDDY
+ KIRSTY MCGEE
Saturday 30th October 2021
INDIA ELECTRIC CO.
Saturday 6th November 2021
THE TANNAHILL WEAVERS
Friday 12th November 2021
COIG
+ COPPER VIPER
Friday 28th January 2022
NIALL MCNAMEE & BAND
Saturday 19th March 2022
THE TRIALS OF CATO
Friday 22nd April 2022
CUA
+ ANTOINE & OWENA
Friday 14th May 2022
HONEY & THE BEAR
with FRIENDS (Toby Shaer & Evan Carsons)
Friday 15th July 2022
BOB FOX
Saturday 6th August 2022
THE OCELOTS
Saturday September 2022
KATHRYN ROBERTS & SEAN LAKEMAN
Saturday 15th October 2022
BLACKBEARD'S TEA PARTY
Friday 4th November 2022
STEVE WICKHAM & RAY COEN
+ Rebecca Jayne
Saturday December 3rd 2022
INDIA ELECTRIC CO.
Friday 16th December 2022
ST. AGNES' FOUNTAIN
SOLD OUT
Saturday 28th January 2023
BARN DANCE/CEILIDH WITH: THE HOG'S BACK BAND
Saturday 11th February 2023
KITEWING
(Alden & Patterson with The Shackleton Trio)
Saturday 24th March 2023
THE HONEYBEES
(Odette Michell, Amy Goddard, Zoe Wren)
Saturday 22nd April 2023
THE OCELOTS
(Ashley & Brandon Watson)
+ Hannah Scott
Friday 26th May 2023
JOHN BLEK
Saturday 5th August 2023
MERRY HELL
+ Virginia Kettle
SOLD OUT
Saturday 23rd September 2023
SILVERBLUES
(Ray Jackson-Lindisfarne, Ric Sanders-Fairport Convention,
Tom Leary-Feast of Fiddles, Vo Fletcher-The Ric Sanders Trio)
SOLD OUT
Saturday 14th October 2023
JAMES YORKSTON with NINA PERSSON (The Cardigans)
SOLD OUT
Saturday 11th November 2023
HONEY & THE BEAR
+ Friends (Archie Churchill-Moss, Evan Carsons)
Thursday 30th November 2023
POLICE DOG HOGAN
SOLD OUT
Wednesday 20th December 2023
JOHNNY COPPIN, DIK CADBURY, PAUL BURGESS
with: "ALL ON A WINTER'S NIGHT"
Saturday 27th January 2024
SIMON MAYOR with HILARY JAMES & Friends
SOLD OUT
Saturday 24th February 2024
ADAM BEATTIE with FIONA BEVAN & Friends
Friday 22nd March 2024
SAM KELLY with JAMIE FRANCIS
Monday 22nd April 2024
THE LEISURE SOCIETY
Friday 10th May 2024
STEVE WICKHAM & RAY COEN
SOLD OUT
Friday 31st May 2024
MERRY HELL
SOLD OUT
Friday 28th June 2024
HARP & a MONKEY
Saturday 20th July 2024
RUM RAGGED (on tour from Newfoundland, Canada)
Friday 27th September 2024
THE HENRY GIRLS
SOLD OUT
Saturday 19th October 2024
RACHAEL McSHANE & The Cartographers
Friday 29th November 2024
BELLA HARDY (with Jenn Butterworth)
Friday 13th December 2024
Grayshott Folk Club's "Christmas Special"
with MELROSE QUARTET
Saturday 18th January 2025
SHOWMAN & COOLE + RUBE & RAKE
(on tour from Canada)
Saturday 8th February 2025
THE TANNAHILL WEAVERS
+ Ed Blunt
Saturday 1st March 2025
POLLY PAULUSMA with Jon Thorne
Tuesday 11th March 2025
KRIS DREVER & CHRIS STOUT
At Churt Village Hall
Saturday 29th March 2025
STEVE KNIGHTLEY
SOLD OUT
Saturday 3rd May 2025
HONEY & THE BEAR + Friends
(with Toby Shaer, Archie Churchill-Moss, Evan Carson)
--------------------------------------------Please note: our e-mail address is:
grayshottfolkclub@btinternet.com
Or you can call us on:
01428 607096
or
07800 951 507
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A little bit of Grayshott Folk Club history:
Grayshott Folk Club went live with our first ever gig on
22nd January 2011. The main aim of Grayshott Folk Club is to bring "quality live music at affordable prices " to Grayshott, which is a village near HINDHEAD in South-West Surrey but Grayshott Village Hall itself, is actually situated just inside the Hampshire border by about 50 yards and is officially the biggest village hall in the whole of Hampshire.
We mostly host Folk bands/musicians and our past guests have included;
Acoustic Strawbs, Altan,
Ashley Hutchings/Blair Dunlop/Becky Mills, Belshazzar's Feast, Bob Fox, Breabach, Coig, Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, Jon Wilks,
Katherine Priddy, Kris Drever + Chris Stout, Lau, Melrose Quartet, Merry Hell, O'Hooley & Tidow,
Sam Carter/Sam Sweeney, Sam Kelly/Jamie Francis,
St. Agnes' Fountain,
SilverBlues
(Ric Sanders, Ray Jackson, Vo Fletcher and Tom Leary),
Steve Wickham (ex-The Waterboys) & Ray Coen,
Tannahill Weavers,The Bully Wee Band, The Churchfitters,
The Young 'Uns and Tide Lines, amongst many others.
We occasionally stray off-piste with a little bit of live Americana/Pop/Rock/Prog Rock music and
Caravan, Colin Blunstone & Band, James Yorkston/Nina Persson, Jarrod Dickenson, Joe Topping & Scott Poley, Linda Lewis, Mike d'Abo, Police Dog Hogan,
The Christians and The Leisure Society
have all played for us since we started out.
Basically, we do whatever we can, to keep it live, keep it local and to keep hungry musicians off our streets......
Our first choice venue is:
Grayshott Village Hall,
Headley Road,
Grayshott,
Nr. HINDHEAD,
Surrey GU26 6TZ
and from time to time, we also use
St. Alban's Church, Tilford Road,
HINDHEAD, Surrey GU26 6RB
as venues to host our live music events.
If you wish to buy tickets for our gigs, you can buy them in person from:
Grayshott Post Office, Crossways Road, Grayshott GU26 6HJ
Alternatively, you can call Des O'Byrne on 01428 607096
or e-mail me at: grayshottfolkclub@btinternet.com
for all enquiries relating to Grayshott Folk Club.
We also sell our tickets online through ENTS 24 but please be advised there is a 10% surcharge for using this service.
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Watch this space and do please keep coming back to us for updates!